[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes] page 26

Barnes 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]

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MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.

Table 33.—Home-Visiting.

A summary of the work performed by the three Health Visitors during the year is given below:—
Visits to expectant mothers	384
First visits to newly-born infants	306
Revisits to infants under 1 year	2,085
Visits to children aged 1 to 5 years	3,175
Visits in connection with Council's scheme for the supply of milk	43
Still-birth inquiries	5
Special visits to cases of measles	90
„ „ „ „ „ whooping cough	391
„ „ „ „ „ pneumonia	16
Visits to foster children	72
Visits in connection with infectious diseases other than those above specified	1,111
Total visits	7,678

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Table 34.- Notification of Births.

(a) Registered in Borough:—	Live Births.	Still Births.	Totals.
Number of births registered during 1941 as occurring in the Borough	248	6	254
Number of such births not notified in accordance with the Public Health Act, 1936, Part VII	1	2	3
(b) Notified.
Number of births, live and still, notified during the year—
by medical practitioners			10
by midwives			246
by other persons			1
Total notified			257

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Number of still-births notified during the year 6
Percentage of still-births to total births occurring in the Borough 2.3

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Table 35—Institutional Confinements.

In institutions within the Borough		127
In registered maternity homes	127
In institutions outside the Borough		108
In general hospitals	8
In maternity hospitals	29
In Public Health County hospitals	35
In Public Assistance institutions	22
In maternity homes	14
Total		235

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Number of above institutional confinements arranged
through the Borough Ante-natal Clinic 50